(tā) - she, her in Mandarin
tāTraditional: 她
Translation
she, her
Word origin
她 (tā) means 'she, her'. It is a phono-semantic compound with the 女 (woman) radical for meaning and 也 (yě) as the phonetic component; it was created in the early twentieth century to mark the feminine third person.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 女 (woman radical) + 也 (yě, phonetic)
Stroke order
她
Examples
。
She is my younger sister.
语。
She is learning English.
。
I saw her.
。
She likes drinking hot tea.
。
She rang me yesterday.
她 (tā) is the feminine third-person pronoun, distinguished in writing from the masculine 他.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 她.
Used in
Stories
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